Speed up the Windows 11 start menu with a simple registry hack.
How to speed up the Windows 11 start menu with a simple hack.
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A good tip to speed up Firefox when using apps like Google Earth.
How to speed up Firefox on Linux with a simple tweak.
Gnome 42 desktop release is more bloated than ever and dumbed down as well.
The new Gnome 42 desktop release has some doubtful design decisions. One of them is removing the terminal and adding a custom terminal application called Console, but this is apparently worse. Gnome Terminal was just fine to use, now they have a worse application you are supposed to use. The new Console app has fewer … Read more
How to encode a movie clip with FFmpeg and have the encoding start right away.
Encoding a movie clip with FFmpeg is very simple, but getting the encoding to start right away is the hard part. Sometimes it will take many seconds to start, but this is due to the slow searching through the file looking for the right section. Putting the “-ss 01:58:11” parameter before the “-i” parameter is … Read more
A good tip to speed up the Firefox UI easily on Ubuntu 20.04.
The Firefox UI on Ubuntu 20.04 was very slow for some reason. But this trick was a good way to help speed it back up. Go into about:config and then set the value below to true and then restart the browser. gfx.webrender.force-disabledgfx.webrender.force-disabled This seems to have sped it up greatly. I am not sure why … Read more
How to use FFmpeg to get a slow-motion video clip.
Making a slow-motion clip from a video can be very useful to show off what is happening in a certain scene. The example below will make a slow-motion clip from a video file. This would be another very useful FFmpeg tip. > ffmpeg -i qS_lu5dKo9A2qoNW.mp4 -c:v libvpx -b:v 3200k -filter:v "setpts=2.0*PTS" -ss 00:00:03 -t 6.9 … Read more
Another good way to speed up the boot time of Ubuntu.
My Ubuntu 18.04 system was taking a long time to boot, but I have analyzed the problem with Systemd and now it should boot faster. Run this command to see which service takes the longest at boot time. 4.4 Thu Oct 17 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ systemd-analyze blame | head -n 10 2min 10.235s apt-daily.service 55.956s … Read more
Broadband in Australia is worse than Uganda.
The Australian Broadband Network is the envy of no one. This is terrible. Constant dropouts, and slow speeds are the norm in Australia. We could have had super fast Internet in Australia, but we got copper wires combined with some fiber connections. But the presence of a 1000 Mega Bits Per Second network like the … Read more
How I sped up Ubuntu 18 quite a bit with one simple command.
Ubuntu on my system was a bit slow, and the applications were a little slow to load, I found out that this little trick will speed up my system. Run this command as root to get a nice speed boost on Ubuntu. sudo sysctl -w vm.swappiness=1sudo sysctl -w vm.swappiness=1 This tunes the swappiness of the … Read more
Removing Network Manager from Ubuntu. I am sick of it.
I am finally sick of using Network Manager on Ubuntu 18. It seems to make my Internet connection slower and I am constantly messing around trying to fix it. I used the command below to remove the Network Manager service. 4.4 Fri Aug 31 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo apt-get remove network-manager network-manager-gnome network-manager-pptp network-manager-pptp-gnome Now … Read more
Fix very slow Internet on Ubuntu 18 easily.
My Internet connection in Ubuntu 18 was very slow compared to Windows 8.1. This is how I fixed it. Run this command to open the /etc/resolv.conf file for editing. If you do not have VIM installed, try nano instead. Or run sudo apt install vim-common. jason@Yog-Sothoth » ~ » $ sudo vim /etc/resolv.conf Then edit … Read more
Youtube buffering extremely slow compared to Vimeo. Why is this so?
Youtube lately has been buffering extremely slowly. This is due to an unknown cause at Googles end. I can try to watch a 480p video on Youtube and it will take ages to buffer; but if I go to Vimeo; a HD video will load instantly and buffer with lightning speed. I wish that Vimeo … Read more
More Knoppix Goodness.
Updating the sources.lst as I write this, it is taking a long time, but I am using the Town Library connection with WIFI and it is only about 64K per second, so updating the aforementioned file with apt-get update takes quite a while to run. I wish Australia could get a super fast broadband system … Read more